CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Greenhead it runs 60 km to Greenhead; allow about 1 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall, Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & and back through Hadrian's Wall. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 17 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Birdoswald stands on a bluff above the River Irthing in Cumbria, almost at the point where Hadrian's Wall leaves the flatter country near Carlisle and begins to climb into the harder, wilder ground of Northumberland. The Roman fort here was called Banna, and it was one of the larger forts along the wall, home to a cohort of auxiliary soldiers. What makes it special is that you can walk along a stretch of the wall that stands tall, with the original facing stones and the line of the turrets still visible, and look out over a steep wooded gorge where the Irthing cuts through red sandstone.
Read the complete Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of H write-up.
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Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of H is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall.
North of Haltwhistle the land rises in a series of dark ridges, and along their crest runs the most dramatic surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall. Built from AD 122 on the orders of the emperor Hadrian, the wall ran some seventy three miles from the Tyne to the Solway, with forts, milecastles and turrets along its length, and here, between Walltown Crags and Birdoswald, it climbs and drops along the edge of the Whin Sill, a band of hard volcanic rock that forms natural cliffs facing north. The wall is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &.
Of all the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, Carrawburgh may be the most mysterious. The fort itself, called Brocolitia, is largely unexcavated, a grassy platform beside the Military Road, but just below it, in a boggy hollow, stands the reconstructed outline of a small temple of Mithras, the soldiers' god, whose cult was popular among the Roman army. The temple was excavated in 1949, and its three altars, now replaced by replicas, the originals being in the Great North Museum in Newcastle, were dedicated by commanders of the garrison. Nearby, a spring dedicated to the water goddess Coventina yielded an astonishing hoard of coins, altars and offerings when it was excavated in the nineteenth century, around thirteen thousand coins in all.
Read the complete Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & write-up.
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about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall, late in the day. Next is Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of H.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of H write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of H. That is the ride.
Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of H → Hadrian's Wall is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall → Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & → back through Hadrian's Wall is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall → Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of H is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.